On Nature
and Language

Copyright Noam Chomsky, ADRIANA BELLETTI and LUIGI RIZZI 2002; first published 2002; ISBN 0 521 01624 X paperback, 0 521 81548 7 hardback; typeset in Quadraat. Belletti and Rizzi open with an editors’ introduction to concepts and issues in linguistic theory, and interview Chomsky on minimalism; the volume closes with “The secular priesthood and the perils of democracy”, so the linguistics and the politics sit between the same covers. The latest Chomsky title in the collection.